How to pick Block You Test Me questions friends will actually answer
The best questions share one property: they are about something a friend could plausibly have noticed. Not facts you announced, not opinions you keep to yourself, but the small visible stuff. What you order. How fast you text back. What you do when the plan collapses at the last minute.
The second property is harder to design for: a question has to have one answer that makes sense. If both options are equally true, friends are flipping a coin and the miss tells nobody anything. Questions about taste work; questions about moods do not.
The third is tone. A quiz that asks friends to guess your salary will get jokes instead of answers. Keep it in the territory of coffee orders, evening habits and group-chat behaviour and people play it seriously, because they can actually be right.
40 Block You Test Me questions, sorted by category
None of these are in the built-in library, so they work as a fresh set. Copy a category, mix two, or take the whole forty and cut it down to ten.
Everyday habits
- What time does my alarm really go off?
- What do I check first when I wake up?
- What is the last thing I do before bed?
- Where do my keys actually live?
- What do I do with an hour nobody planned for me?
- How many unread messages am I carrying right now?
- What do I do the moment the Wi-Fi dies?
- Which chore do I put off the longest?
Food and drink
- Coffee, tea, or something cold in the morning?
- What is my usual order at the place we go to most?
- Which food would I never share?
- What do I eat when I am too tired to cook?
- How do I feel about leftovers?
- What sauce goes on my food by default?
- What is my 11pm snack?
- What do I order first time at a new restaurant?
The group chat
- Who replies fastest in our chat?
- Which emoji do I overuse?
- What do I do when the group starts arguing?
- What gets me back in the chat at 2am?
- How many voice notes do I send in a row?
- What do I type and then delete?
- Who do I text first with good news?
- Which running joke do I keep bringing back?
Small private things
- What do I do when I am nervous?
- What am I weirdly particular about?
- What do I do with a bad day?
- What is playing in my headphones right now?
- Which app do I open without thinking?
- What do I do when someone near me is upset?
- What is my excuse for leaving a party early?
- What do I keep buying and never use?
Nostalgia and history
- What do we always bring up about the old days?
- What was I like when we first met?
- Which song takes me back to that one summer?
- Which trip do we still talk about?
- Who said we should do this more often first?
- What do we always say we will do and never do?
- Whose house did we always end up at?
- Which sentence only the two of us would recognise?
How to mix ten Block You Test Me questions
A round where everything is a knife-edge guess ends in silent scores. A round where everything is obvious ends in the same number for everyone. Ten questions is enough room to build a little curve.
- Four easy. Things anyone who has met you twice would know. They keep the score from bottoming out.
- Four sharp. The details only someone paying attention catches. This is where the spread comes from.
- Two freebies. Questions with a funny answer built in, so the person who scores 40 still has something to say about it.
Order them in that shape too: open easy, go sharp in the middle, land on something light. Friends who hit a wall in question two tend to rush the rest.
One more thing worth knowing before you paste: your friends cannot see your choices while they play. The quiz shows one question at a time, and the answers only appear at the end, next to whatever they guessed. That means nobody can quietly look up what you picked, and it also means nobody can blame the format for a bad score.
Block You Test Me questions that backfire
A few styles are tempting and consistently make quizzes worse.
- Anything about a private thing you have never mentioned. The miss is not a miss, it is a secret.
- Anything with a judgement attached, like who is the better driver. Friends guess the answer they think you want.
- Anything where the options are four variations of the same thing. Nobody can distinguish them, including you.
- Two inside jokes in a row. One is charming. Two turns the quiz into an exam on your shared history.
How order and wording of Block You Test Me questions change the score
Write questions in the first person and the quiz reads like a personality test. Write them as quizzes about your friend and it reads like a school assignment. The first-person habit also makes options easier to write, because you are describing yourself rather than guessing at somebody else.
Keep each question to one sentence. If it needs a clause to explain the situation, friends will answer the clause instead of the question. And put the hardest question around position seven, after the rhythm is set and before attention runs out.
Ready to use a set? Create a quiz and paste the questions in, or read the score guide first if you want to know what the bands mean before anyone plays.